A Tesseract set up with Fat Frees and 43 Paris will be the easiest thing to learn to slide on. Fat Frees are poured in Happy Thane, our most forgiving urethane, and have a narrow contact patch with a rounded lip profile that will allow almost anyone to kick out some buttery slides. They are also the smallest and lightest wheel, which is a huge plus for flatland and freestyle junkies. – Dusty

Paris Savant 180 / 43 Trucks

75mm In Heat (80a, orange) Wheels

Bearings, bearing spacers, hardware

Paris V2 180 / 43 Trucks

69mm The Kilmer (86a, yellow) Wheels

Bearings, bearing spacers, hardware

Trucks, wheels and risers? See ourLoaded Setup Matrix. These are the setups we recommend. Looking for a specific setup you dont see here? Contact us r (310) 839-1800, ext 1 and well get you rolling!

Silverfish Longboarding: The Loaded Tesseract

Symmetrical rocker throughout the deck cups the outer edges of your feet and creates a subtle locked-in sensation, helping you stay firmly planted in slides and facilitating confident and natural movement up and down the length of the board. Additionally, rocker slightly lowers your center of gravity for enhanced stability.

Symmetrical rocker cups the outer edges of your feet and locks you in for sliding.

The Tesseract features flared wheel wells that increase wheel clearance and also create surface transitions that provide lateral and longitudinal support for your feet, both inside the trucks and on the kicktails. These flares promote board awareness and keep your feet locked into a compound contoured pocket while sliding, cornering, and tucking.

Weve designed the Tesseract with an intuitive W concave to enhance rider control in all toeside maneuvers. The central hump is tall yet wide, providing strong lateral support near the transitions without compromising arch comfort. The W concave on the Tesseract follows a mellow elliptical profile and fades gradually in amplitude approaching the trucks, disappearing 3/4 behind the innermost mounting holes. This design allows the inside edges of your feet to nestle up against the W (for toeside slides) while also allowing the outside of your foot to rest in a more radial dish just behind the flared wheel wells (for comfort while tucking on long downhill runs).

Tall and wide W concave mellows out near the trucks to enhance comfort on long downhill runs while still providing strong lateral support for your toes when sliding and cornering.

The Tesseracts outline shape is designed for maximum functionality and versatility. A slight taper toward the kicktails places the greatest width at the center of the board (for rear-foot leverage while tucking in a shorter stance) but is mild enough to keep the deck wide at the neck, over the bolts, and on the tails for plenty of leverage and control in a variety of stances. Completely symmetrical shape and contours guarantee that the Tesseract is ready for anything you throw its way–in any stance or orientation.

Symmetrical outline shape and contours for maximum versatility in any stance or orientation.

Designed to satiate both freeride and freestyle appetites, the Tesseract is endowed with tailored kicktails to get the job done with gusto. The width has been dialed in to provide exceptional toe and heel edge control, and the length and upturned tips generate powerful pop and accommodate the entire width of your foot. Subtle dished concave keeps your shoes glued to the board and aids in catching tricks into manuals and pivots. The contours of the kicktails blend in a tight transition with the outer surfaces of the wheel well flares to create compound contoured pockets for your feet both over and outside of the bolts, contributing to enhanced control for manuals and 360 slides.

The Tesseract offers both 24.5 and 26 wheelbase options, allowing you to fine tune your setup based on your riding style and specific truck geometry. Move your axles in for quicker pop, increased agility, higher traction, and lower swing weight; move them out for greater stability and more lean.

The 3.5 wedging angle of the Tesseract allows for a wide range of interesting hardware configurations. We find that a truck with a lower kingpin angle (below 45) works synergistically with the wedging angle to provide a versatile balance of lean and turn with a low ride height. A truck with a higher kingpin angle (above 45) works best with a soft 3-4 wedged riser to simultaneously preserve the steering geometry and damp vibrations.

When presented a cork canvas to work on, two distinct reference were evident. One was a grandparents mid-century cork lamp (strangely out of place in their Francophile home). Second, was an interest and training in the International (Swiss) Style. Given the complexity and diversity of the board, a pursuit of simplicity in the design was in order. A focus on a solid color field cube created interesting and organic looking opacity changes when printed on the cork. This play with natural textures against the contrived cubic print creates an emphasis on the craft of the board as a whole.

The Tesseracts powerful pop and lightweight construction pair best with a light and small wheel for freestyle and technical freeride enthusiasts. We ride Orangatang Fat Frees (65mm) to keep the ollies high and swing weight low. Scale up to a mid- to high-diameter wheel such as Orangatang Stimulus (70mm), Morongas (72.5mm), or Durians (75mm) for higher roll speed, smoother performance on rough pavement, and increased longevity.

For downhill applications, the Tesseract can accommodate up to an 80mm race wheel. Be sure to fine tune your setup with the appropriate hardware (risers, bushings, washers) to provide the performance youre after, and always check for wheelbite before you ride.

Two layers of custom fiberglass/epoxy skins sandwich two vertically-laminated bamboo cores to create a stiff yet light and damp structure. Laminated to the bottom of the board is a layer of cork which provides vibration damping and (as we learned to our surprise during testing) a significant level of durability. The granular, non-directional structure of the cork helps prevent abrasive damage from propagating (in contrast to a traditional wood or bamboo veneer with long, oriented fibers).

The tessellated pattern in the cork is generated in 4-dimensional space and can only be fully understood if you lick it.